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A prospective, randomized, controlled study was performed in 100 patients suffering from migraine without aura, assessed according to the TCM classification to evaluate the efficacies and impact factors of acupuncture and oral medicine in the treatment of primary headaches. The patients were divided into the 3 groups. In the majority of the trials, it was concluded that acupuncture offers benefits in the treatment of headaches. Conversely, the evaluation of physical forms of treatment, including acupuncture, has special difficulties that the studies till now are lack of meaningful quantitative analysis on mechanism. This note show an opposite conclusion to Prof. Andrew J Vickers that age is related to Migraine. Chronicity and headache degree will also affect the treatment result.
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Luo, X., Zhang, S., Du, P., Meng, J., Zhou, S., He, Z. (2010). Analysis of Impact Factors in Acupuncture for Patients with Migraine——Doubts on Prof. Andrew J Vickers’ Conclusion. In: Huang, DS., McGinnity, M., Heutte, L., Zhang, XP. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. ICIC 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 93. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14831-6_74
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